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A Background of Ukraine Politics

Know9 | 23.02.2014 18:41 | History | Repression | Social Struggles | London | World

analysis of the Ukraine unrest

a sea palace in the Ukraine
a sea palace in the Ukraine

Yalta
Yalta


Those aligned to Europe want independence from Russia.
Those aligned to Russia reject EU countries' involvement in NATO wars as well as Goldman Sachs' control of many EU country treasuries. The dissolution of the
Soviet Union and separation of the Ukraine from Russia was coordinated by the CIA and its former director G H W Bush's deliberate destabilization. Several Harvard
economists including Jeffrey Sachs were indicted but went scotfree.

The following is from  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_people_by_net_worth
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It lists 20 of the Russian billionaires, some known as oligarchs....these are the people who looted the property of the people of Russia for their own privateering pirateering profiteering.

The 2nd number is a ranking among the 1375? billionaires of the world. The last number is each billionaire's estimated worth in billions.

Russian Rankings World rankings Names Sources of wealth Net worth (USD billions)

1 34 Alisher Usmanov steel, telecom, investments 17.6

2 41 Mikhail Fridman oil, banking, telecom 16.5

3 47 Leonid Mikhelson gas, chemicals 15.4

4 52 Viktor Vekselberg oil, metals 15.1

5 55 Vagit Alekperov LUKoil 14.8

6 56 Andrey Melnichenko coal, fertilizers 14.4

7 58 Vladimir Potanin metals 14.3

8 62 Vladimir Lisin steel, transport 14.1

9 62 Gennady Timchenko oil & gas 14,1

10 69 Mikhail Prokhorov investments 13

11 73 Alexey Mordashov steel, investments 12.8

12 103 German Khan oil, banking, telecom 10,5

13 107 Roman Abramovich steel, investments 10,2

14 119 Dmitry Rybolovlev fertilizer 9.1

15 123 Iskander Makhmudov mining, metals, machinery 8.7

16 131 Oleg Deripaska aluminum, utilities 8.5

17 138 Sergei Galitsky retail 8,2

18 138 Alexei Kuzmichev oil, banking, telecom 7.9

19 150 Andrei Skoch steel 7.9

20 162 Leonid Fedun Lukoil 7.1
Author notes

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  1. Picture perfect. — Makey
  2. simplistic — anon

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